Ian Aitchison | |
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Born | 1936 (age 88–89) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison (born 1936) is a physicist and retired academic who was Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2003.
Born in 1936, [1] Aitchison read mathematics at Peterhouse,Cambridge,graduating with a BA in 1958;he then completed a PhD in theoretical physics there in 1961. [2] [3]
Between 1961 and 1963,Aitchison was a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York;after a year at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France,he worked as a research associate at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge from 1964 to 1966. In 1966,he was elected a fellow of Worcester College,Oxford,and appointed a university lecturer in theoretical physics;he was awarded the title of Professor of Physics in 1996 and retired in 2003. He remains an emeritus professor at the University of Oxford. [1] [4]